Rev. J. Kortering, of Hull, Iowa, declined the call from Hudsonville. Hudsonville has now called Rev. J.A. Heys from a trio which included the Revs. M. Schipper and H. Veldman. Edgerton, Minn. has tendered a call to Rev. D. Engelsma of Loveland, Colo. Randolph, Wis. has announced their newest trio:…
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THE KINGDOM OF THE CULTS, Walter R. Martin, M.A., Zondervan Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; 443 pages; $5.95. THE KINGDOM OF THE CULTS, Walter R. Martin, M.A., Zondervan Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; 443 pages; $5.95. The author is an ordained Baptist minister, teacher in the famous New York Bible…
We have been considering the purpose of the institution of the Lord’s Supper from the viewpoint of its objective significance, as set forth in the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. This all-important aspect of the sacrament may not in any way be minimized. In all that takes…
From all of our previous discussion on this subject there can be no doubt but that Christ brought the ransom for the sins of His people, His own sheep, the church, His Body, the children of God, those given to Him by the Father, the many. There are many passages of…
When these lines appear in print “the season of giving” will for weeks have been a thing of the past. However, they are written a few days before Christmas and were suggested by the hustle and bustle to be seen in stores of every type across the land. Stores and…
The name comes from the Russian dukhabortsy, meaning “spirit-wrestlers,” which signifies in the divinity of man the struggle of his soul with the god within, thus disclosing an inherent albeit unphilosophical pantheism. An illiterate peasant cult, it ‘stems from the Raskolniki, schismatics, from the established Russian Orthodox Church. It denies the objective,…
The doctrine of an infallible Bible, Barth labels “Docetism.” At the same time, he maintains that the church escapes this heresy only by acknowledging Scripture to be an error-prone book. One’s first reaction to the charge is to ask what “Docetism” can possibly have to do with the doctrine of…
THE WORLD ON DIVORCE The problem of divorce and remarriage has always been a difficult problem—even (and perhaps especially) in the world. Those who are not Christians recognize the fact that the foundation of all, society is the stable family. Divorce breaks down the family. It breeds bitterness, broken homes,…
We now continue with our discussion of God’s creation of the heavens and the earth, calling attention to the question whether the “days” of Genesis 1 are to be viewed as ordinary days or as periods extending over thousands and millions of years. In our preceding article we first called attention to…
SCRIPTURE AND SATISFACTION (continued) There are still more terms which Scripture uses in connection with the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ which very plainly include the idea of satisfaction. SCRIPTURE AND SATISFACTION (continued) There are still more terms which Scripture uses in connection with the atonement of our Lord…
Anyone at all acquainted with earlier volumes of ourStandard Bearer will know that frequently, both in the editorial columns and in the other departments, the necessity of Protestant Reformed education for Protestant Reformed children has been stressed. One way of emphasizing that necessity is to place it in the context of…
“And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves for and your children. For, behold, the days aye coming, in the which they shall…